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In honor of the 40th anniversary of the celebrated paper, "Theory of Rational Option Pricing," Myron Scholes, Robert Merton and Steve Ross will join some of the most active and influential researchers in the field today to discuss how derivatives theory and practice have developed since 1973 and where they are headed.

As a part of the Conversations on Urbanization series held by NYU Stern’s Urbanization Project, NYU Global Research Professor Richard Florida spoke with Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures in a public presentation on October 9.

Ellen Seidman, the 2013-2014 Citi Leadership & Ethics Distinguished Fellow and former director of the US Treasury Department’s Office of Thrift Supervision, met with students and faculty this month.

As a part of the Conversations on Urbanization series held by NYU Stern’s Urbanization Project, Paul Romer, Director of the Urbanization Project, Director of the Marron Institute and Professor of Economics, spoke with Bill Bratton, who formerly served as chief of police of the Los Angeles Police Department, New York police commissioner and Boston police commissioner, in a public presentation on October 2.

Learn more about doctorate degrees in business and meet representatives from over 20 PhD programs.

The Center for Global Economy and Business of the NYU Stern School of Business and the Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance of The University of California at Santa Barbara will hold a joint conference on Demography for Economists.

During the Entrepreneurs Challenge Kick-Off, attendees will hear about NYU Stern’s Annual New Venture Competition and Social Venture Competition – both sponsored by Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation – as well as NYU’s Annual Technology Venture Competition, hosted by Stern’s Berkley Center and NYU’s Innovation Venture Fund.

Academics, practitioners and policymakers gathered at NYU Stern on September 23 for a roundtable discussion on “Big GAAP vs. Little GAAP: Public Company and Private Company Reporting.”

The Conference on Extracting & Understanding the Risk Neutral Probability Density from Options Prices will bring together researchers from NYU Stern and the Federal Reserve Banks of New York and Minneapolis to describe the work they have been doing on extracting the risk neutral density from options prices and analyzing the information it contains.

Stern's Center for Global Economy and Business (CGEB) will host a public talk with Philipp Hildebrand, vice chairman of BlackRock and former chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank.

Dean Peter Henry and the Center for Business and Human Rights welcomed representatives from manufacturing, workers’ organizations and the governments of the United States and Bangladesh for the Conference on Bangladesh Workplace Safety, held at NYU Stern on September 9-11. This forum marked the Center’s inaugural event.

NYU Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation recently hosted a new workshop series entitled, "Lean Startup Summer Boot Camp." The five-session series explored human-centered research, divergent thinking and problem solving to validate or invalidate startup or product ideas early on.

Jill Kickul, director of Stern’s Program in Social Entrepreneurship, spoke about “Hybrid Models for Social Enterprises” at the 2013 orientation training for the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE), a global network of organizations that fosters entrepreneurship in emerging markets.

The NYU Stern Center for Measurable Marketing hosted “Measuring and Managing Brands in a Digital World" on May 29. The conference brought together marketing leaders and top academics to discuss best practices in measuring brand equity.

Finalists from the New Venture, Social Venture and Technology Venture Competitions will participate in the 2013 Final Pitch-off for up to $200,000 in seed money and in-kind support as part of the NYU Stern Entrepreneurs Challenge, hosted by the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation.

Jerry L. Cohen (BS ’53, MBA ’59), NYU Stern Board of Overseer, Partner of Tishman Speyer Properties, and the Center for Real Estate Finance Research invite you to a full-day exploration of four current hot topics in real estate finance.

Every seat in Gardner Commons was filled when Hamdi Ulukaya, founder and CEO of Chobani, came to campus to share his story of success.

NYU Stern's Fifth Annual Volatility Conference convened academics, practitioners and regulators to discuss the latest research and ideas on this year's theme, "Volatility of Credit Risk." Hosted by Nobel Laureate Professor Robert Engle, this year's conference was sponsored by Stern's Volatility Institute, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, BlackRock, Deutsche Bank and SoFiE.

Alessandro Piol and Maria Teresa Cometto, co-authors of Tech and the City: The Making of New York's Startup Community, spoke with NYU students and alumni about their new book, which examines the conditions that are contributing to the rise of NYC as a hub of technology and entrepreneurial activity.

NYU Stern’s Business & Society Program Area and the Evolution Institute co-hosted a workshop to assess the possible applications of evolutionary thinking – including gene-culture co-evolution, multi-level selection and the multiple paths by which humans became ultrasocial creatures – for business and business ethics.

Some 50 academics, practitioners and policymakers gathered at NYU Stern on April 15 for a roundtable discussion on “The Inside Scoop on Securities Litigation for 2013.” Industry experts discussed new litigation trends and anticipated the SEC’s main areas of focus this year.

On March 12, NYU Stern's Center for Global Economy and Business hosted a public discussion with Neil Barofsky, NYU Law Professor , the author of Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street and former Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (“SIGTARP”).

The Center for Real Estate Finance Research (CREFR) and Marc H. Bell, General Partner of Barbican Capital host a full-day conference on the future of the U.S. housing finance system.

NYU’s entrepreneurial community—including successful student, faculty and alumni startup founders and venture capital investors—will gather to celebrate innovation and entrepreneurship at the second annual NYU Entrepreneurs Festival.

Faculty from top business and law schools convened on February 8 and 9 to present, discuss and debate their work at the ninth annual NYU/Penn Conference on Law and Finance. The event was co-hosted by NYU’s Pollack Center for Law & Business and the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Law and Economics, and sponsored by NERA Economic Consulting.